BOE Meeting Feb 16

[Go Plainedge!]

Last night's meeting was quite an interesting one. There were two HOT topics discussed and things started to get a bit heated.

1. The Chief of the NMFD along with approximately 25 fellow NMFD volunteers came to the meeting with full fire fighting clothing on. The chief read a very long speech. The floor was open only for questions related to the agenda at the time. Rich Mallow said it wasn't part of the agenda and tried to squash the speech. However, Ralph Raymond mentioned (while also trying to abstain from opinion) that technically it was on the agenda because Rich Mallow started the meeting with comments about the Fire Fighters exemption. The chief went on to communicate his great disappointment with the BOE and their decision about not passing the exemption. Rich Mallow offered his apologies for the way it was handled and accepted blame for the way the motion was brought about and the miscommunication with the other BOE members.

The chief reminded the BOE that there are 120 volunteers and that they have a great voting influence.

2. The Eastplain addition was the second hot topic. Community members expressed their displeasure with the thought of expanding Eastplain when Packard is sitting vacant. Mr. Richman explained that in the LONG TERM, Packard would cost too much to maintain. However, he never explained what was meant by "long term". Community members persisted with their questions about this topic and it clearly caused great "stress" to Mr. Richman. He promised that at the March 8th Coffee Hour he would have more information about the sale/trade of Packard and Pickens (sp) and it would be placed on a vote for the community in August.

It was fun-filled and exciting meeting. I'm glad I was there.

[rinx]

I bet it was fun filled.
So know they want to expand Eastplain. LMFAO!
Fool us once shame on you. Fool us again shame on us.
I wonder how much he's going to tell us it would cost to fix Packard this time.
First it was in the millions, next it was a couple hundred K to fix it up for rental. I for one can't wait to hear.
This guy thinks were all shnooks.
Heave ho - Mallow gotta go!

[rinx]

I bet it was fun filled.
So now they want to expand Eastplain. LMFAO!
Fool us once shame on you. Fool us again shame on us.
I wonder how much he's going to tell us it would cost to fix Packard this time.
First it was in the millions, next it was a couple hundred K to fix it up for rental. I for one can't wait to hear.
This guy thinks were all shnooks.
Heave ho - Mallow gotta go!

[delilah]

Right on Rinx!

Heave ho--JR's gotta go!

[Go Plainedge!]

Mr. Mallow had a "senior moment" last night with regards to the Firemans exemption. He tried to say that he was only making the motion for the item to be discussed. However, according to the minutes that's not what happened.

From the District website meeting minutes December 15, 2005

Old Business:
1. Volunteer Firefighters & Ambulance Workers Tax Exemption
RESOLVED, that the Plainedge Board of Education pursuant to Section 466-c of
the New York Real Property Tax Laws amended in 2005, wishes to grant the volunteer
firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers an exemption for school taxes.



Mr. Presuto made a motion to approve Item #1 under Old Business. The motion died due to
the lack of a second motion.

[irishman]

Rinx and Delilah

Ye both seem to have spotted our main problem. Like dealing with the Black & Tan - ye've found that there's no dealing with people of that ilk.

The only way to go is give 'em the old Heave HO! ;D

Heave HO! - - - Heave HO' - - - IT'S OFF THE SCHOOL THEY GO! - - - HEAVE HO! - - - HEAVE HO'


And both of ye sharpies noticed that "they have to go" - which they seem to DO all the time! Trouble is that when they DO - they do their du-du on us!

[elphaba65]

1. The Chief of the NMFD along with approximately 25 fellow NMFD volunteers came to the meeting with full fire fighting clothing on. The chief read a very long speech. The floor was open only for questions related to the agenda at the time. Rich Mallow said it wasn't part of the agenda and tried to squash the speech. However, Ralph Raymond mentioned (while also trying to abstain from opinion) that technically it was on the agenda because Rich Mallow started the meeting with comments about the Fire Fighters exemption. The chief went on to communicate his great disappointment with the BOE and their decision about not passing the exemption. Rich Mallow offered his apologies for the way it was handled and accepted blame for the way the motion was brought about and the miscommunication with the other BOE members.

The chief reminded the BOE that there are 120 volunteers and that they have a great voting influence.

Apparently what Mr. Raymond, Mr. Presuti and the NMFD do not understand is that there is more involved than granting them an exemption. First, the exemption will also have to be extended to the volunteer fireman who reside in our school district yet are members of the Bethpage, Farmingdale, Seaford and Massapequa Fire Departments. Second, their "exemption" shifts their share of the school taxes to the rest of the community, a community that has already failed a school budget because they feel overtaxed.

The NMFD should be ashamed of themselves trying to intimidate and bully the School Board into giving them an exemption. How dare they insinuate that they will work to fail a school budget because they are not getting what they want? This reminds me of the years not to long ago that School Board members granted favors to those groups who promised to support them in an election.

The last time I looked Webster's definition of voluntary was " Acting or serving in a specified capacity willingly and without constraint or guarantee of reward".

[rinx]

My understanding after reading the text was that they were insinuating voting against certain boe members up for re-election. Which sounds good to me.
So lighten up.
I'll make a prediction right now...Mallow will not be re-elected. Mickey Mouse can run against him and win & the budget will be defeated if anything above 8% is submitted.

[Go Plainedge!]

Elpha:

Glad to see you again.

I agree with you. I got the same feeling listening first hand to the chief at the meeting. The Chief asked "how many votes did your budget fail by?" I made my feelings known back in Oct when this first was brought up. I think we touched upon it in previous posts.

However, I would like to believe that the NMFD will vote in the best interest of the community, their understanding of the budget and THIER children.

I also agree with Rinx in that this may have been a bad mark against Mr. Mallow for his next election - if he decides to run again.

[irishman]

;D AH! 'Tis good to see that the selfrightious and indignant elphaba65 is back in town! I've been missing the little bugger.

What hits me in me funny-bone the hardest - is the ever changing numbers that'll be comin' out of these postings!

In November, near when I last was in town, the firefighters were shown as 40 - and almost a $3.80 bill loaded onto the rest of us for givin' them the exemption!

Now there's 120 of them? Twist me nose and stomp my toes - where'd they all come from?

But most strange of all - is how elphaba65 seems to so daringly an emphatically reject the notion that a group serving the community cost us too much at a $3.80 increase - and not say a bloody thing about the more than Thousand dollar increase that'll come from the latest shenanigans called a Budget sent out by the BOE this last week![/b]

Yea gods elphaba65! Don't you have any sense of proportion? Even if there's now 3 times as many firefighters - that's still only $12 more - not a Thousand more!

Now I'm not particular if the firefighters do or don't get and exemption - $3.80 or $12 won't make me and it won't break me.

But - and this is a big but, almost as big as my aunt Martha's butt - a Thousand and more dollars wantin' to be pulled from my pocket - or even half that much - will cause me to lay the ol' shillelagh on the back of the ol' curmudgeon who wants to take it from me!

Me-thinks it's elphaba65 who should be ashamed - for makin' an mountain out of a molehill! - and not sayin one teeny weeny little word about the real mountain that's about to come crashing down on us!

Another BOE number game fiasco! By a BOE that can't give the same numbers twice!

I wonder what'll be when I'm back home again?